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Title: Some War-time Lessons
The Soldier's Standards of Conduct; The War As a Practical Test of American Scholarship; What Have We Learned?

Author: Frederick P. (Frederick Paul) Keppel

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SOME WAR-TIME LESSONS

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SOME WAR-TIME LESSONS

The Soldier's Standards of Conduct
The War As a Practical Test of American Scholarship
What Have We Learned?

by

FREDERICK PAUL KEPPEL

Third Assistant Secretary of War

[Illustration]

New York
Columbia University Press
1920

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Copyright, 1920
By Columbia University Press

Printed from type, January, 1920

Printed at
The Plimpton Press
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TO

NEWTON D. BAKER

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. THE AMERICAN SOLDIER AND HIS STANDARDS
OF CONDUCT 9

II. THE WAR AS A PRACTICAL TEST OF AMERICAN
SCHOLARSHIP 36

III. WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? 66

SOME WAR-TIME LESSONS

THE AMERICAN SOLDIER AND HIS STANDARDS OF CONDUCT[1]

Perhaps the greatest laboratory experiment in human c